This movie wasn't the easiest to find...however, when I did manage to track it down...it made a lot more sense as to why that is.
Mostly, because it starts off more like a porn, than it does a horror film.
The whole thing basically takes place in one long and wholly unnecessary flashback sequence, during which a man recounts the story of Psycho Santa to his unprivy wife.
And this starts off with an equally long and unnecessary introduction to the backstory of the killer, with two probable porn actresses/lesbian lovers vacationing at a cabin over Christmas holidays.
Apparently, this is all meant to lead up to some sort of relatively explosive revelation...but it ends up being so anti-climactic...it's actually quite humourous.
As we'll come to see...the filmmakers really struggle when it comes to seizing those climactic moments.
Though you can chock up the blame here to extremely poor editing...albeit the awful story and poorly developed plot structure don't help much either.
All the cuts are extremely abrupt, and poorly timed, with no attention paid to giving transitions- between the narration sequences and vignettes- any sort of nuance.
And from here, things only get worse...as the story inexplicably shifts to two men robbing a blind woman's house.
At first, it seems like this segment has no viable contextual purpose either, other than to be act as a vehicle for another nude shower scene.
To their credit, it does eventually become clear that this all plays into the backstory of Chris...the deranged son of the blind woman and her husband...who would inevitably go on to become Psycho Santa.
He had been kept locked up, and confined to a room, by his parents.
But now he has been released...and is out for blood...killing anyone and everyone he comes into contact with...
The vignettes themselves are actually not so bad, considering it's a D-grade horror that was probably made on virtually no budget.
However, the whole aspect of connecting them with the guy and his wife in their car really kills the vibe and drags the whole thing down...especially considering the transitory editing is so poorly done.
It's collection of faults aside...this isn't even close to being the worst of the Christmas horrors that are out there.
And that is even considering the fact that they kind of lead you to believe that there is going to be a "whole Psycho Santa" reveal- after toying around with partial clips of him walking around with some sort of serrated blade- before totally disappointing you with another unoppourtunistic anti-climactic moment you can't help but shake your head at.
The fact that there are scenes that are actually a bit discomforting, really makes me think this film could have had potential.
But this was really hindered by some bizarre decision making, a poor plot design, and a failure to identify what moments needed to be seized upon in an explosive way.
So i'd rank it somewhere in the mid tier of D-grade class of Christmas horror films.
And give it a solid 2 out of 10.